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Speaker 1: This was the scene yesterday off the Florida coast the

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Speaker 1: Ornemis two rocket, the most powerful ever built in human history,

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Speaker 1: taking three American astronauts and one Canadian back to the Moon.

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Speaker 1: They won't land there, but they'll circumnavigate the Moon, and

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Speaker 1: when they come around the backside, we will see in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six clear images the clearest ever taken of

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Speaker 1: the Earth, narrated by human beings. We will be reminded

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Speaker 1: that we share one home together, this beautiful planet set

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Speaker 1: against the void of space. It is Thursday, April the second.

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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the morning when you see something,

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Speaker 1: when you see it for the first time or for

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Speaker 1: the first time in a long time, it refreshes your memory.

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Speaker 1: It reminds you of things that are important. It gives

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Speaker 1: you a new perspective, and perhaps seeing the Earth from

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Speaker 1: a new perspective will remind us of some things back

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Speaker 1: home as Americans. It was announced that the Department of

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security is suspending its proposal which it has begun

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Speaker 1: to purchase warehouses some a million square feet a half

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Speaker 1: a million square feet to be turned into prisons American

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Speaker 1: concentration camps in Social Circle Georgia and surprise, Arizona. Many

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Speaker 1: of these places seem to have been purchased through corrupt

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Speaker 1: and irregular contracts. But the greatest disgrace is the one

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Speaker 1: that violates the rights of the human being in a

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Speaker 1: country founded on those human rights, life, liberty, and the

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Speaker 1: pursuit of happiness. This was Christy noms sick fantasy her

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Speaker 1: and Corey Lewandowski and supported by the other Trump status.

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Speaker 1: The idea that children and moms would be made to

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Speaker 1: un American. It is evil, and it should not take

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Speaker 1: looking back at Earth from the moon to see that evil.

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Speaker 1: Clearly in the United States, the oil traders yesterday saw

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's speech clearly did.

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Speaker 2: The believe no longer. This is a true investment in

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Speaker 2: your children and your grandchildren's future. The whole world is watching,

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Speaker 2: and they can't leave the power, strength, and brilliants. They

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Speaker 2: just can't believe what they're seeing. They leave it to

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Speaker 2: your imagination, but they can't believe what they're seeing. The

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Speaker 2: brilliance of the United States. It's military.

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Speaker 1: They saw that it was low energy, that it was reckless,

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Speaker 1: that it was disjointed, and that America has no strategy

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Speaker 1: to end the war. A few weeks back, I said,

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Speaker 1: if there is one lesson, just one from the last

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Speaker 1: twenty five years that we would hope our leaders would

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Speaker 1: have learned, it would be that it's much easier to

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Speaker 1: start a war than to end a war. There is

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Speaker 1: no off switch like there is an on switch. Straight

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Speaker 1: of horror moves will not automatically reopen. And the price

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Speaker 1: of oil on the world's market isn't determined by which

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Speaker 1: country gets its oil through the Strait of Hormuz. It's

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Speaker 1: a global market. And the price of oil went up,

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Speaker 1: which means the chances of American inflation are going up.

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Speaker 1: It means the chances of losing your job are going up.

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Speaker 1: It means the chances of the economy sliding into rect

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Speaker 1: session are going up. It means the war is going

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Speaker 1: to escalate. It means more Americans are going to be killed.

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Speaker 1: It means a great tragedy is unfolding. And it should

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Speaker 1: not take a photo of the Earth from the moon

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Speaker 1: to remind us here in America that when we lose

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Speaker 1: a war, we do it together as a country, not

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Speaker 1: as a political party. Yesterday, there was a case before

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court about birthright citizenship. The context here matters.

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Speaker 1: When America was a young country at the beginning, when

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Speaker 1: the Revolution was fought, there were less than three million

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Speaker 1: of us quote unquote Americans. There is no tribe of Americans.

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Speaker 1: There is no group of people that live together in

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Speaker 1: antiquity known as Americans that had a diaspora. America is

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Speaker 1: a nation of immigrants founded on an idea, and that

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Speaker 1: idea is about human dignity, about freedom. And so it

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Speaker 1: came to be that some eighty years after the revolutionary

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Speaker 1: war was fought on an idea that all men were

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Speaker 1: created equal, a great civil war was fought over the

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Speaker 1: issue of slavery. When that war was fought, there were

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Speaker 1: thirty four million Americans. Eight hundred thousand were killed to

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Speaker 1: abolish slavery, to emancipate black Americans. And in the aftermath

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Speaker 1: of the war, constitutional amendments were passed, the fourteenth and

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Speaker 1: the fifteenth amendments among them that clarify forevermore who is

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Speaker 1: an American, and it is not a racial cast, It

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Speaker 1: is not a product of religious affiliation. An American is

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Speaker 1: someone who takes their first breath in the free era,

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Speaker 1: being free. That's what it means to be an American.

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Speaker 1: And an American is someone born here, and that was

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Speaker 1: settled in the eighteen seventies. And the reason Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: wants to reopen the issue is because of his racial

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Speaker 1: supremacist dogma. That's at the heart of Maga. When that

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Speaker 1: capsule carried in the astronauts comes around the moon, we

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Speaker 1: blackness of space. And we should appreciate a president of

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Speaker 1: the United States who talks about bombing a country of

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Speaker 1: ninety three million back to the Stone Age is unfit

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Speaker 1: morally for his job. We should appreciate the degradations of

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Speaker 1: human rights taking place in the United States, and we

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Speaker 1: should see clearly the assault on our values. Great things

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Speaker 1: happen every day in America, but terrible things also And

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Speaker 1: what the tragedy of this time is is the author

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Speaker 1: of those terrible things is more likely than not on

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Speaker 1: any given day to be this man, the President of

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Speaker 1: the United States. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning.

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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you

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